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"God can’t/couldn’t be everywhere, so he created mothers” is a saying that has been printed on many images. Bohemian Jewish writer.Leopold Kompert wrote the saying in his ghetto stories. “Die alte Babele bei Kompert sagt: ‘Gott konnte nicht überall sein, darum hat er die Mutter geschaffen’” was printed in the book Rom und Jerusalem (1862) by Moritz Hess. “The saying of the old rabbi, ‘God could not be everywhere, and, therefore, he made mothers’” was printed in the novel Ben-Hur (1880) by Lew Wallace.

English poet, novelist and journalist Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) has been credited with the saying since at least the 2000s, but the saying was cited in print before Kipling was born. It’s uncertain if Kipling ever used it.

“GOD couldn’t be everywhere so he created Grandmothers’ was printed in the El Paso (TX) Times on May 11, 1974. “God could not be everywhere so he created grandmothers and grandfathers” was printed in The Daily Standard (Sikeston, MO) on March 10, 1975.

Google BooksBen-Hur:
A Tale of the Christ
By Lew Wallace
New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, Publishers
1880
Pg. 223:
I had a little sister, and she and I were the family, and we were so happy that I, at least, have never seen harm in the saying of the old rabbi, ‘God could not be everywhere, and, therefore, he made mothers.’

Google BooksProverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages (Volume 2)
Compiled by Robert Christy
New York, NY: G. P. Putnam’s Sons
1893
By 65:
God could not be everywhere, therefore he made mothers. (Ben Hur.) Wallace.

Google BooksJewish Literature, and Other Essays
By Gustav Karpeles
Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society of America
1895
Pg. 123:
Granny (Alt-Babele) in one of Kompert’s tales says: ‘God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.’

25 October 1895, The Daily Independent (Helena, MT), “It Will End To-day,” pg. 5, col. 3:
“There is an old Jewish proverb,” he added, “that says that God cannot be everywhere, and, therefore, he created mothers, thus making them his immediate representative on earth, the channel through which flowed divine mercy and forgiveness.”

3 September 1897, The Jewish Messenger (New York, NY), “Jottings,” pg. 4, col. 4:
It was the heroine in one of Kompert’s tales who said: “God could not be everywhere, so He created mothers.”

Google BooksRome and Jerusalem:
A Study in Jewish Nationalism
By Moses Hess
New York, NY: BLoch Publishing Company
1918
Pp. 86-87:
The little old grandmother in Kompert’s story says: “God cannot be present everywhere at the same time; He therefore created the Mother...”

Google BooksCaprifoil
By William P. McGivern
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead
1972
Pg. 45:
I asked him to join me in my study, and I told him I favored the correct phrasing of that pleasant old aphorism, which, of course, is, ”God couldn’t be everywhere, so he created mothers.”

10 March 1975, The Daily Standard (Sikeston, MO), “Handicapped man refuses to feel sad,” pg. 4, col. 4:
The other two pictures are inscribed with “God could not be everywhere so he created grandmothers and grandfathers.”

7 September 1975, The Arizona Daily Star (Tucson, AZ), pg. B10, col. 4:
Or one can choose from those he has already crafted. (Fence picket signs.—ed.) One says: Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things. Another: God could not be everywhere, so he created Grandmothers.

Google BooksEra: New Directions for Aging
California. Dept. of Aging
Volumes 1-5
1975
Pg. 8:
From Drop-In Center News, Ft. Bragg, California we glean: “God could not be everywhere so he created Grandmothers.”

Google BooksGrandma Sylvia’s Funeral:
An Interactive Play in Three Acts
By Glenn Wein and Amy Lord Blumsack
New York, NY: Samuel French
1998
Pg. 45:
DORI. G-d couldn’t be everywhere, so He created Grandmothers

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Emily Francos
May 12, 2019
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5. Mom’s are a blessing when we need them most.
“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” —Rudyard Kipling